Browsing CNN front page I see that AP correspondent in this case, whose photo was published by CNN, is using the Sony A9III to take historic photos of Biden and Zelensky at the Normandy landing celebration. CNN always leave all the EXIF information intact so you can see that this was taken with A9III and judging from 94mm at F2.8 probably 70-200/2.8 lens, ISO2000 does not look too bad either. https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/c70471ca-9199-4156-93f1-8cbf85a32a20.jpg The fact that they are using A9III rather than A1 or Canon R3 is telling that global shutter is really appealing to these news guys, and 24MP is plenty for them.
NOTE: No political comments allowed. We are here to talk about gear ok?
Adobe recently made a major change in their Terms of Use that amide it clear they had access to your photos. many did complain about that change and Adobe now did post an update to clarify why they made this change:
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We recently made an update to our Terms of Use with the goal of providing more clarity on a few specific areas and pushed a routine re-acceptance of those terms to Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud customers. We have received a number of questions resulting from this update and want to provide some clarity.
We remain committed to transparency, protecting the rights of creators and enabling our customers to do their best work.
What is different in the Terms of Use
The focus of this update was to be clearer about the improvements to our moderation processes that we have in place. Given the explosion of Generative AI and our commitment to responsible innovation, we have added more human moderation to our content submissions review processes.
When Adobe applications and services may access content
Access is needed for Adobe applications and services to perform the functions they are designed and used for (such as opening and editing files for the user or creating thumbnails or a preview for sharing).
Access is needed to deliver some of our most innovative cloud-based features such as Photoshop Neural Filters, Liquid Mode or Remove Background. You can read more information, including how users can control how their content may be used: https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learning-faq.html
For content processed or stored on Adobe servers, Adobe may use technologies and other processes, including escalation for manual (human) review, to screen for certain types of illegal content (such as child sexual abuse material), or other abusive content or behavior (for example, patterns of activity that indicate spam or phishing).
Adobe’s continued commitments
Our commitments to our customers have not changed.
Adobe does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content. Firefly generative AI models are trained on a dataset of licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired. Read more here: https://helpx.adobe.com/firefly/faq.html#training-data
Adobe will never assume ownership of a customer’s work. Adobe hosts content to enable customers to use our applications and services. Customers own their content and Adobe does not assume any ownership of customer work.
We appreciate our customers who reached out to ask these questions, which has given us an opportunity to clarify our terms and our commitments. We will be clarifying the Terms of Use acceptance customers see when opening applications.
So folks, lately I have been silent on Sony rumors because of two reasons:
The personal stuff that is keep me busy, told you about here and I can tell you know this will take a lot of more time than expected
Sony has postponed the release of most gear and I am awaiting new info on the new launch dates
I don’t know why Sony postponed the ZV-E10II launch and other product launches. But this is not unique to Sony! Also Canon (read here) and Nikon delayed some of their product launches. Possible reasons could be the worldwide shipment havoc but that’s just one of the possible causes.
So I am awaiting to get confirmation on the new roadmap and these are the small updates I can give you today:
Sony 85mm f/1.4 GMII
All one trusted source told me is that it still seems the 85mm f/1.4 GMII might be announced very soon (possibly within early July)
Sony ZV-E10II and kit lens
Another trusted sources told me this camera should start shipping out in August. He has no info yet when the camera will be available for reorder (If June or in July).
24-70mm f/2.0
No info at all when this lens will be released but I am 100% sure we are getting it with or soon after the ZV-E10II launch
Exciting prospects ins second half of the year
The second half of the year will be finally exciting!
We are getting a new FX Full Frame camera between July and September. Shoudl be an FX9 successor
We are getting a new Alpha camera in August/September. Could be the A7sIV but I have no confirmation yet
We could get another Alpha camera in October/November. No info about this model
Small chance to see an “unexpected” model in October/November. More info about that soon!
Wrap up:
So that’s it for now, hope that I can sort my shit in the next days and find some more time to work on rumors soon! You can help me out on this and share the rumors you find or hear by using this contact box or by contacting me at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Thanks!
A couple of Sony Cine E-mount cameras use Electronic Variable ND technology. In these videos you can find out how it works and why it’s important. I imagine some of you are wondering if this technology will ever make it into the more compact A7s or FX3/30 line of cameras. I hope the A7sIV will feature it, as it would add a lot of attention to this camera! Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
